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Researchers at security firm Adversa devised an attack that tricks Grok, the AI assistant developed by Elon Musk's xAI, into exfiltrating user chats and personal data by encrypting malicious instructions, bypassing exist…
ChatTJB, a satirical San Francisco platform created by former Google project manager Tucker Bryant, replaces AI with human volunteers and has processed over 100,000 queries since April, peaking at 5,000 prompts an hour. …
Ikea's AI chatbot Billie now assists 74% of customers, up from 47%, and the company retrained about 8,500 call center staff as interior design advisors, leading to customer satisfaction rising from 60% to 89% and remote …
A lawsuit against Mayo Clinic alleges that the hospital system's use of artificial intelligence in patient care led to a patient's death, highlighting ethical tensions in the healthcare industry's race to adopt AI. The s…
Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 language models are generating confusing or invented terminology, forcing developers to spend extra time and tokens on cleanup, with token costs up to two times higher, according to a GitH…
DutchZeroHumanCompany is developing the Trust Rating Agency (TRA), a reputation layer for agentic business ecosystems that computes trust scores from verifiable evidence such as credential validity, with published weight…
The Linux Kernel's adoption of an 'Assisted-by' attribution tag for AI-generated code in 2024 has set a precedent for engineering teams. The policy, championed by Linus Torvalds, requires contributors to acknowledge AI a…
Incogni's new study of 13 AI platforms ranks them by privacy risk, finding that the largest platforms are the most privacy-invasive, with the exception of OpenAI's ChatGPT. Gemini and Meta AI received the highest risk sc…
At the CX Malaysia conference, Dr. Shreekant Vijaykar of COPC Inc. demonstrated that AI can make absurd mistakes, citing an example where ChatGPT failed to recognize that a customer's shoe mix-up was a joke and instead p…
Incogni's privacy researchers tested 13 leading large language models against 11 strict protection criteria, finding that none fully protect user data and that opting out is not as simple as toggling a switch. The study …
A Redditor who scraped content from Cara, an anti-AI photo app, has had a change of heart, according to a follow-up report by PetaPixel. The individual initially scraped all of Cara's content into a dataset despite the p…
ALLNET ALL-WAP02860AC's website is protected by Anubis, a Proof-of-Work system designed to deter AI companies from scraping websites, which can cause downtime. The administrator implemented Anubis to make mass scraping m…
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said on X that doctors should help patients configure AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok for their treatment, arguing that AI will replace most doctors' tasks, particul…
Frontier AI models can produce polished but potentially misleading marketing plans, and CMOs must become 'hybrid' leaders who combine AI's speed with human judgment to avoid traps such as superficial novelty and imitatio…
Raja Mukerji, a Forbes Councils member, argues that as organizations rush to adopt AI, the primary leadership challenge is shifting from implementation to governance, accountability, and control. The article emphasizes t…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has ordered Twitch to provide users with an opt-out for Amazon's use of their content for AI training, citing GDPR violations. The opt-out toggle, located in Creator Dashboard → …
Flock Safety, whose cameras log vehicles across more than 6,000 U.S. communities, has built an AI tool called OS Investigate that can identify and follow drivers using only movement patterns, according to a Wired report.…
An investigation by 404 Media revealed that Amazon is buying rare books, cutting off their bindings, and scanning them for AI training data, destroying the physical copies in the process. The operation, tracked via a GPS…
California's Labor Commissioner opened an inquiry within 48 hours after an AI system fired a San Francisco cashier, and Assembly Bill 2930, which would require employers to disclose automated decision logic, allow human …
KuCoin announced on August 20 that its Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) has been certified under the ISO/IEC 42001:2023 standard, making it the second digital asset platform to receive the certification a…